美国文学期末复习完美版 ()

（美国文学期末复习资料(完美版) Imagism （意向主义）

(1)Imagism came into being in Britain and US around 1910 as a reaction to the traditional English poetry to express the sense of fragmentation and dislocation. （2）The Imagists, with Ezra Pound leading the way, hold that the most effective means to express these momentary impressions is through the use of one dominant image.

(3) Imagism is characterized by the following three poetic principles: i) direct treatment of subject matter; ii) economy of expression; iii) as regards rhythm, to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of metronome; iv) Ezra Pound’s In a Station of the Metro is a well-known imagist poem.

Ezra Pound (爱兹拉·庞德）

Cathay (1915)《中国》a volume of Chinese translation.

He blue-penciled The Waste Land《荒原》the most significant American poem of the twentieth century.Cantos 《诗章》，a modern epic Pound’s major work of poetry。Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 《休·塞尔温·莫伯利》

In a Station of the Metro《在地铁站》

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; 这几张脸在人群中幻景般闪现；

Petals on a wet, black bough. 湿漉漉的黑树枝上花瓣数点。

Appreciation and comment:

In “In a Station of the Metro” Pound attempts to produce the emotion he felt when he walked down into a Paris subway station and suddenly saw a number of faces in the dim light. To capture the emotion, Pound uses the image of petals on a wet, black bough. The image of “petals” is juxtaposed with another image of “wet, black bough.” The image is not decoration: It is central to th e poem’s meaning. In fact, it is the poem’s meaning. Ezra Pound’s main contribution to American literature

Ezra pound is regarded, and rightly, as the father of modern American poetry. Impatient with the fetters of English traditional poetics, he led the experiment in revolutionizing poetry. It was he who first discovered T.S. Eliot and blue-penciled the latter’s famous poem, The Waste Land. It was he who helped William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, and William carols Williams in their literary careers. And he survived them all, writing continually right up to his death. Pound’s contribution to the development of modern poetry is very great.

T.S. Eliot （T.S.艾略特）

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock《杰·阿尔弗雷德·普鲁弗洛克的情歌》—started 1915—is seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement,

Literary terms: soliloquy (独白）interior monologue (内心独白）dramatic monologue （戏剧独白）motif （主旨，主题）epigraph （题词）

Soliloquy or interior monologue（独白或内心独白）: in drama, an extended speech delivered by a character alone on stage. The character reveals his or her innermost thoughts and feelings directly to the audience, as if thinking aloud.